One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The past is not what it was.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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